Shaun Chamberlin: Quotes about the trip

“No system can ever relieve us of our personal responsibility, and it is essential that we all recognise the need to change the way we live.”

Shaun Chamberlin

What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto (2012) https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745332857/what-we-are-fighting-for/

Way , Personality , Change

“It is hopefully not too controversial to note that unsustainable things end. There are two possibilities from here – we dramatically change direction or we end up where we are headed. Either way, we are on the cusp of radical change.”

Shaun Chamberlin

"Humanity – not just a virus with shoes", Dark Optimism (2019) http://www.darkoptimism.org/2019/08/06/humanity-not-just-a-virus-with-shoes/#post-6037

Way , Change

“The threat to our way of life is a consequence of our way of life. That's what unsustainability means.”

Shaun Chamberlin

Chamberlin's @DarkOptimism account (2020) https://twitter.com/DarkOptimism/status/1241367288474939396

Way , Life

“Whatever you do will change the world. If you take the most default option, you follow the most mainstream, down the line, ‘just keep your head down and get on with what they’re telling you to do’, approach, then that’s the world that you’re helping to create. There is no way that you can not change the world.”

Shaun Chamberlin

Kosmos interview on grief, Dark Optimism, aliveness and activism (2014) http://www.darkoptimism.org/2014/12/21/dark-optimism-power-of-grief/#post-4075

World , Way , Help , Change

“Resilience isn't predicting the correct future and preparing for it; resilience is acting in ways that make sense across the widest range of possible futures.”

Shaun Chamberlin

Chamberlin's @DarkOptimism account (2021) https://twitter.com/DarkOptimism/status/1435951949258661898

Future , Way , Sense